Katy, Texas — March 6, 2026 — Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., C.P.G., President & CEO of the I2M Corporation in Katy, Texas will be presenting March 17, 2026 on the AIPG-TX Webinar. He, with the assistance of Henry Wise, P.G., C.P.G., will be discussing how the global build-out of nuclear generation capacity, including the rapid commercialization of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), is driving a sustained increase in primary uranium demand and yellowcake production, with market dynamics consistent with a move toward historically elevated prices. To meet projected annual requirements on the order of hundreds of millions of pounds U3O8, resources in established uranium provinces of the U.S., Canada, Australia, and several African and South American countries will need to be expanded, while supplies from Russia and China will likely remain constrained for U.S. utilities.
Sandstone-hosted deposits are exploited by a range of mining methods, but in-situ recovery (ISR) has become a dominant technology where permeable, confined aquifers host roll-front style mineralization at depths commonly exceeding 300 ft and stratigraphically below potable groundwater. These uranium-bearing intervals, treated as naturally mineralized and unsuitable for domestic or agricultural use, are typically excluded from water-supply designation by state and federal regulators, while adjacent aquifers remain available as production horizons.
ISR of roll-front deposits in states such as Wyoming, South Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska, and Texas employs managed wellfields in which production wells are encircled by injection wells that introduce oxidizing solutions to mobilize tetravalent uranium within the biogeochemical cell at the redox interface. The injected solutions oxidize and complex uranium as U(VI), generating low-concentration, weakly radioactive uranium solutions that are pumped to the surface, passed through ion-exchange or resin circuits, and subsequently shipped as loaded resin to centralized plants for U3O8 (yellowcake) production.
Facility licenses require perimeter and down-gradient monitoring-well networks, detailed hydrogeological characterization, and restoration plans to demonstrate hydraulic and chemical control of the wellfield and to verify that excursions do not impact protected aquifers. As nuclear deployment accelerates and ISR technology matures, the number and geographic distribution of ISR operations targeting sedimentary uranium deposits in the U.S. and globally can be expected to increase substantially over coming decades.
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